The University of Pittsburgh Classics Department will be well represented at the conference Feminism & Classics IX: COMMUNITIES, to be held at the University of Cincinnati in May 2026. Feminism & Classics is a quadrennial conference dedicated to intellectual engagement with the study of antiquity from a variety of feminist-informed perspectives. This year, it is organized around the theme of “Communities.” See below for talks and involvement by Pitt graduate students and faculty!
Program Committee Members include: Grace Funsten (faculty) and Ellen Lee (faculty)
Roundtable: Communities of Pedagogical Practice
Organized by Ellen Lee (faculty) and Amy Pistone
“Neither Slave, Nor Family: The Manumitted Nurse in Pseudo-Demosthenes 47, Against Evergus and Mnesibulus”
Talk by Sarah Brucia Breitenfeld (faculty)
“Gender without Sex: Aristotle on the Leaders of the Bees”
Talk by Abigail Fritz (PhD student)
“From Weaving in Community to Weaving for Control: Plato’s Appropriation of Weaving Imagery”
Talk by Nataly Ianicelli Cruzeiro (PhD student)